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   Hello Richard!   
      
   08 Jan 21, Richard Falken wrote to Kai Richter:   
      
    >> So if i tell you it does not work, then it is still your   
    >> responsibility to f a way that will work for me.   
      
    RF> Agreed, but I don't think it is a big deal still.   
      
    RF> I mean, you don't even need to have the source code publicly   
    RF> available. If one of your customers wants it enough to phone you in   
    RF> for it, you just send him a copy somehow. The only thing you need to   
    RF> do is to have the source code provisioned in your own facilities if   
    RF> you don't trust upstream to keep repositories available undefinitedly.   
      
   Yes. But we are talking about business. In other words you have to be prepared.   
      
    RF> Just in case I made it not clear, what I meant is that it is not a   
    RF> big deal in the sense that it does not affect your business model   
    RF> much.   
      
   If you are not prepared your competitor can take advantage of that and the   
   cost of the lawsuit could ruin your business. For a business that don't want   
   to spend some 100red bucks to a lawyer a lawsuits will be a big neckbreaking   
   deal.   
      
    RF> If you sell hardware appliances then having to opensource the   
    RF> software you are running is unlikely to make you sell less machines,   
    RF> in a significative number at least.   
      
   He wants to use third party software. I didn't find a license for that fuitbox   
   stuff he wants to use but i did not dig deep. If it's a selfmade licence then   
   you need to go into details for a forecast of the adverse effects.   
      
   Regards   
      
   Kai   
      
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